Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Rev. Father Raniero Cantalamessa, O. F.M. Cap.

Charismatic Preacher to the Papal Households!

Of both Popes John Paul II & Benedict XVI.

"There is another sickness that coils around us on all sides."

"It is called superstition..."

"This too is a mental sickness."

Here's a previously posted snippet from his tell - all masterpiece, Sober Intoxication of the Spirit: Filled with the Fullness of God.

"There is another sickness that coils around us on all sides.

"It is called superstition -- resorting to wizards, sorcerers, fortune - tellers, occult arts and spiritualists.

"This too is is a mental sickness.

"In Deuteronomy we read, No one shall be found among you -- who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits or who seeks oracles from the dead. For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord (Deuteronomy 18:10 - 12).

"Isaiah wrote this terrifying prophecy: The Lord is about to bring judgment on this land because it is overflowing with soothsayers and diviners from the east (see Isaiah 2:6, 12)

"How modern our ancient Isaiah is!

"[O]ur world is overflowing with sorcerers and diviners.

"Most of the time it is a case of charlatanism and nothing else.

"[Yet the] godless intention of practicing this art and of resorting to occult arts is enough to make people fall into the snares of the evil one.

"We have only two ways to be healed or to improve: through nature or through grace...."

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